Bill, Everything you have said about how the virtual printer should work is correct, but I have found that with OpenBook and WynnWizard there are times when it will not work. I have not figured out when that is. It is clear when the quality of the image is poor or the font is too busy or artsy. It is almost as if the virtual printer cannot see the image and it treats the page as being blank.
Now if anyone on this list can figure out why neither FS support or myself cannot get the freedom printer installed on my work computer I will be thrilled. But I will need to figure out some details about my problem before I can post the problem here. Annette -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Gallik Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 8:58 PM To: Blind Computing Group Subject: [Blind-Computing] KESI Virtual Printer In Theory OK, I posted a private message to David concerning the KESI Virtual Printer feature of Kurzweil and he urged me to post to the list. I have posted several messages on this matter to the list, but I'm not sure if they were Sufficiently clear. First, I believe the KESI Virtual Printer debuted with Kurzweil 1000 Version 6.0, but it may have been Version 6.02. No matter, there are probably folks out there without this feature because it wasn't available in the version they have installed. What is the KESI Virtual Printer feature? This feature allows a user to "print" a document by specifying the "KESI Virtual Printer" as the printer to run the job. In reality, this selection will pass the formatted print job through the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software and launch Kurzweil 1000 as if it were actually scanning a paper document. The step that's avoided here is actually creating a hard-copy or paper copy of the document to then scan via normal procedures. Instead a shortcut is deployed where the formatted print output is processed immediately via the OCR and the Kurzweil 1000 reader. How does the computer get this feature? The KESI Virtual Printer is established as one of the printer options when Kurzweil 1000 is installed. After installing Kurzweil 1000 you can go to the Settings/Printers from the Main Menu and you'll be able to ascertain that "KESI Virtual Printer" is indeed one of the available printers on the system. Is the KESI Virtual Printer guaranteed to always work? Hmmm, apparently not! Just today I encountered several problems with the document Lois had posted about on this list. The first problem is that it seems the quality of the photocopy is so terrible (or they've used some terribly fancy print font on the original document) that each of the 11 page document reported "Poorly Recognized" while processing the document through the OCR. That was ad enough, but then when I tried to save the "printed/scanned" document Kurzweil crashed. The first problem could have been overcome with some artful editing, but I couldn't save the output into a file of any kind for subsequent editing. Very frustrating for sure! Are there other "virtual printer" applications other than KESI Virtual Printer? Oh yes! From the thread on this list today it is obvious that Freedom Scientific's Open Book has a similar feature. And there are other virtual printer applications available as well. In fact, I just learned today that "Solid Converter PDF" is also installed as a virtual printer -- imagine my surprise when I went to Settings/Printers and discovered this. Lois, you mind sending me that file again -- I'll try to pass it through Solid Converter PDF and see if that works better. So, in theory the KESI Virtual Printer should function as I had suggested throughout the thread on Lois' PDF file. But it didn't and here I sit with egg on my face and the text "F O O L" printed boldly on my forehead! Think I'll take a picture, load it into a PDF and send it on to the list! Humph! ---------------- Bill Gallik E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for her first question. Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/not known right now To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
